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Friday, March 22

George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic

Doo Doo Funk All Stars

8 p.m. doors, 9 p.m. show

21 and over

SOLD OUT

Presented By: Sold out!

George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic

George Clinton is one of the foremost innovators of funk
music, and was the mastermind behind the bands Parliament and Funkadelic.
Clinton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 with 15 other
members of Parliament-Funkadelic.

Clinton started his career with the Parliaments, a
barbershop doo-wop ensemble, which scored a major hit with "I Wanna
Testify" in 1967. Clinton then began experimenting with harmonies, melody,
and rhythm, and taking cues from the psychedelic movement, forever setting
himself apart from the Motown era.

By the early 1970s, the group's tight songs evolved into
sprawling jams around funky rhythms. They dropped the "s" from the
band name and Parliament was born. Around the same time, Clinton spawned
Funkadelic, a rock group which fused psychedelic guitar distortion, bizarre
sound effects, and cosmological rants with danceable beats and booming bass
lines. Funkadelic recorded a number of influential concept albums, including
Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow, Maggot Brain, and America Eats Its
Young.

In the 1980s, Clinton emerged as a successful solo artist.
He released Computer Games with the No. 1 hit single "Atomic Dog,"
produced the Red Hot Chili Peppers' pioneering Freaky Styley, and signed with
Prince's Paisley Park label. He also began to experiment with the urban hip-hop
music scene, as a generation of rappers reared on P-Funk began to name-check
him.

Clinton has become recognized as the godfather of modern
urban music. Beats, loops, and samples of P-Funk have appeared on albums by
OutKast, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliot, De La Soul, Fishbone,
and many others. As Clinton has said, "funk is the DNA of hip-hop and
rap." In 1996, Clinton released the solo album The Awesome Power of a
Fully Operational Mothership, which reunited him with Bernie Worrell and Bootsy
Collins.

In 1997, Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic were inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Guitar Center's Hollywood Rock Walk, and
earned a Lifetime Achievement Award at the NAACP Image Awards. In 2002, Spin
voted Parliament-Funkadelic No. 6 of the 50 Greatest Bands of All Time.

Over the past decade, Clinton has continued to play sold-out
shows across the globe, while a countless number of his songs have been
licensed for film and television. Currently, he is compiling new and old songs
for an exclusive online-only release, fighting for artist rights through the
P-Funk Initiative (a bill drafted with Congressman John Conyers Jr. to protect
against copyright and royalty theft), and blogging about these issues on his
website, FunkProbosci.com. Clinton also continues to support the youth through
the Mother's Hip Education Foundation, and through donations to the Barack
Obama Green Charter High School in Plainfield, New Jersey.

Doo Doo Funk All Stars

Spawning from countless musical backgrounds
and coming together for a common cause, The Doo Doo Funk All-Stars are
breathing new life into the music scene throughout the globe. The collaborative
core group consists of Dookie Green (Tony Ozier) as the frontman on keys,
vocals and instrumentation. Band members include Tyrone Hendrix and Dennis Dove
on drums, Errick Lewis on bass, Steveland Swatkins on keys and talkbox, with
vocals from Etta Ward, Nafisaria Scroggins, and Michael Whitmore. Collectively,
the All-Stars have shared the stage and worked with the top
funk/soul/r&b/hip-hop acts, including The Wu-Tang Clan, India Arie, Bernie
Worrell, Average White Band, Al Green, and The Foreign Exchange. Backed by a
smooth sound lent by years of combined musical experience of all the band
members, a globally-aimed ambition, and a level of talent and skill necessary
to begin a movement, the Doo Doo Funk All-Stars work tirelessly to shed light
on this unique style of music with a truly uncommon approach. Their motivation
is not just to create quality, funky music, but to resurrect the genre and
display what funk is meant to sound like. Through intergalactic travels and
staggering combined creativity The Doo Doo Funk All-Stars are a breath of fresh
air to funk fans and music lovers everywhere.